Revision as of 02:50, 5 July 2006

Contents

LED Description

Power LED (green)

on

Normal: Timed shutdown timer has not been activated

Blink

At bootup, prior to ppc_uartd starting, Just prior to flash memory being updated

Blink Slowly

Timeed shutdown has been established

If ppc_uartd is not started for some reason (started late due to hardware/software issues), it remains blinking, and then after five minutes, DIAG LED blinks 6 times(hard disk error), 6 times, 6 times, ... finally the box shutsdown.

LINK/ACT LED

orange

10BASE-T

green

100BASE-TX

blue

1000BASE-T(only HGLAN)

DISK FULL LED (red)

on

Disk full

blink

Writing to flash memory

DIAG LED (red)

3 times blink

Partition warning: /dev/hda3 is not mounted on /mnt. You can ignore it.

4 times blink

Problem with the cooling fan - probably rotor jammed.

5 times blink

Problem with the flash memory*

6 times blink

Hard drive not found. Or ppc_uartd is not running.

7 times blink

Problem with the RAM/LAN/HDD controller.

blink many times

Writing to flash memory.

* It may be possible to recover from a flash memory error by pulling out power cord and trying again after one night.